[TriLUG] OT - TWC bandwidth caps on the way?

Tue Jun 3 15:01:39 EDT 2008

I have the Sprint card personally, and routinely am in the high-dsl to
low-cable speed range with <30ms latencies.

WMM

On 6/3/08, David Black <dave at jamsoft.com> wrote:
>
> This isn't an endorsement for Sprint, but at a Raleigh IT show about a
> year ago I attended an info-seminar put on by their wireless division.
>
> They were touting EV-DO rev. A and with it, on-net ping times on par
> with cable and DSL - IIRC in the 12-20 ms range.  Also, they would run a
> relatively open network, i.e. possibly allowing uncertified, user
> supplied devices.  EV-DO (no rev. A), as Verizon uses, has bandwidth but
> delay at best around 150-200 ms.  I have no idea if Sprint has since
> delivered but it sure sounded promising at the time.
>
> On topic: as a TWC business class user, I sure hope they don't cap my
> usage any time soon.  But I pay a multiple of the residential rate.
> Here's hoping some decent FIOS coverage spreads in the Triangle...
>
> Dave
>
> Warren Myers wrote:
> > Greg: would one of the broadband USB sticks from any of the cell
> providers
> > work?
> >
> > My employer just bought me one a couple months back, and I've ditched
> > roadrunner because of it.
> >
> > Just a thought :)
> >
> > WMM
> >
> >
> > On 6/3/08, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I don't have an alternative in my area.  I can't do satellite because of
> my
> >> need for VPN and DSK is not available in my area.  I'm a sitting
> >> duck.  This
> >> sucks.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:59 AM, <OlsonE at aosa.army.mil> wrote:
> >>
> >>> TimeWarner can suck it if this happens in our area. I'd even go as far
> >>> as droping all of my services with them. I've had my finger on the
> >>> trigger for a long time, until that last b/w increase ...which cooled
> me
> >>> off for a bit.
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> >>> Behalf Of Greg Brown
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 11:36 AM
> >>> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
> >>> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT - TWC bandwidth caps on the way?
> >>>
> >>> Fark it all.  Good thing I just spent $100 on the Roku and I'm sure
> glad
> >>> I
> >>> rent movies on my Apple TV.   Ted Stevens was right... the Internet
> >>> isn't a
> >>> big truck you can just dump something on.  At least not without paying
> >>> the
> >>> truck owner, the driver, the driver's union, the highway tax, the fuel,
> >>> new
> >>> tires for the truck, the driver's lunch, a tax for a worker to clean up
> >>> the
> >>> roadkill hit by the driver............
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Jason Watts <jsnonzzr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Wasn't it posted by someone that when you guys got your rate increase,
> >>> that
> >>>> the bill increase was shortly to follow?
> >>>>
> >>>> Subscriber:  "WHAT, my bill just went up $64k"
> >>>> TWC:  "True, but you can download things a 2k quicker."
> >>>>
> >>>> Heath,  if those numbers are right and they carry over to dsl... I
> >>> guess
> >>>> the
> >>>> only surfing I do will be done at from work.
> >>>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Nick Goldwater <trilug at dogstar1.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> If all of this is in the works and they are oversubscribed then why
> >>> boost
> >>>>> the speeds?
> >>>>> I sort of like the idea of no speed caps and perhaps 0.15 per gig...
> >>>>> similar to Amazon pricing.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Nick
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ----- "Heath Roberts" <htroberts at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> | Interesting. For $54.90 per month, you can use 15 megabits per
> >>> second
> >>>>> | for 26
> >>>>> | minutes (40-gigabyte cap, assumed 10 bits per byte). If you
> >>> include
> >>>>> | IP
> >>>>> | overhead, maybe 20-23 minutes per month. After that it's $90/hr,
> >>> or
> >>>>> | $64K per
> >>>>> | month. That should certainly help "finance the needed investment
> >>> in
> >>>>> | the
> >>>>> | infrastructure".
> >>>>> |
> >>>>> | I know that broadband access has always been oversubscribed, and
> >>> the
> >>>>> | providers have been extremely close-lipped about by how much, but
> >>> this
> >>>>> | seems
> >>>>> | to say it's by a factor of 2000 or so.
> >>>>> |
> >>>>> | On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Ben Pitzer <bpitzer at gmail.com>
> >>>>> | wrote:
> >>>>> |
> >>>>> | > Suprised that no one has posted this here yet.  Could this be
> >>> the
> >>>>> | end of
> >>>>> | > the
> >>>>> | > basically unfettered server functionality on TWC's network?  I'm
> >>>>> | thinking
> >>>>> | > that it may be, for me at least.
> >>>>> | >
> >>>>> | >
> >>>>> |
> >>>
> http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jwm8wu3jZWZLcKfIlycqFqFegknwD9126HN8A
> >>>>> | >
> >>>>> | > Let the discussions begin.
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